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BY SH A N NON A DDUCCI
IN A WORLD OF SELFIES, THE COLLAR NECKLACE
TAKES ON A NEW SIGNIFICANCE AS THE ULTIMATE FACE FRAMER.
THE BIGGER THE DIAMONDS, GEMS AND DESIGN MOTIFS,
THE BETTER
(
AND THE MORE LIKES
)
.
Bulgari
Bulgari creative director Lucia Silvestri knows how to work with big, juicy
gems—a talent she showcases often on social media, in behind-the-scenes videos that reveal
how she carefully assembles her jewelry creations using colorful, eye-popping gemstones. It's a
specialty that the Italian brand put to even greater use in its new Magnifica collection,
which Bulgari has dubbed its most precious high jewelry line ever created. For the Prodigious
Color Necklace, Silvestri chose five oval-shaped colored gemstones to set into a rose
gold collar: rubellite, topaz, citrine, amethyst and rose quartz. She then added
20 cabochon-cut tourmalines, 124 buff-top amethysts and 48 round brilliant-cut and
pave-set diamonds to finish the necklace, a feat that took nearly 300 carats
and more than 2,000 hours of master craftsmanship.
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